Cría cuervos = Raise ravens
Carlos Saura (Film director, Screenwriter), Ana Torrent (Actor), Conchi Pérez (Actor), Maite Sánchez (Actor), Geraldine Chaplin (Actor), Mónica Randall (Actor), Florinda Chico (Actor), Teo Escamilla, Pablo G. del Amo (Editor of moving image work), Federico Mompou, Kanopy (Firm)
Carlos Saura's exquisite Cria cuervos ... heralded a turning point in Spain: shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy of fascism and its effects on a middle-class family (the title derives from the Spanish proverb: Raise ravens and they'll peck out your eyes). Ana Torrent (the dark-eyed beauty from The Spirit of the Beehive) portrays the disturbed eight-year-old Ana, living in Madrid with her two sisters and mourning the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost (an ethereal Geraldine Chaplin). Seamlessly shifting between fantasy and reality, the film subtly evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows. Additional Reading: http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/527-cria-cuervos-the-past-is-not-past
Online Video, Spanish, 2016
Janus Films, [New York, NY], 2016